USD per year
Project Development Manager
Remote Commercialization – Carbon Projects / Full-time / Remote Living Carbon is a public benefit company with a mission to fight climate change by transforming marginal land into high-value environmental assets. Our team specializes in restoring abandoned mineland and degraded agricultural land into diverse, thriving forests. We're backed by prominent investors including Temasek, Toyota Ventures, Lowercarbon Capital, Felicis Ventures, and YCombinator. We are looking for a highly organized, conscientious, and collaborative Project Development Manager to join our Commercial team. This is a rare opportunity to join a climate company at an inflection point - we have proven our model and are now focused on scaling our project development motion into a portfolio of carbon projects making up a durable, financeable business. The person who succeeds in this role won't just manage projects; they'll help build the operational and commercial foundation that takes Living Carbon from early traction to institutional scale. This person will serve as the operational backbone of our carbon project development pipeline - owning day-to-day project management, driving cross-functional workflows, and synthesizing project activities into investor-facing reporting. This role will report to our Chief Product Officer and work closely with teams across Forestry, Carbon Science, Finance, Land Partnerships, and Supply Chain. You don't need to be a forestry or carbon markets expert - we are looking for an exceptionally diligent operator who can learn our domain quickly, ask the right questions, and keep the team and our projects moving forward.
What you'll do
- Serve as the primary project management lead across Living Carbon's active carbon project portfolio, owning timelines, milestone tracking, and cross-functional coordination to ensure projects advance toward financeability and registration
- Build, manage, and continuously improve cross-functional workflows that connect our Forestry, Carbon, Finance, and Land teams around shared project development goals
- Prepare and maintain structured project reporting, synthesizing field activities, milestones, and risks into clear materials for project finance partners and investor updates
- Own and manage reporting deliverables to capital and project finance stakeholders, ensuring accuracy,...
Living Carbon transforms marginal land into high-value environmental assets by combining precision tree breeding with innovative reforestation. Driven by dedication and informed by generations of scientific research, the company aims to restore ecosystems, improve biodiversity, and enhance the ability of photosynthetic organisms to draw down and store carbon from the atmosphere.
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